Norbert Baas

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Norbert Baas (2014)

Norbert Baas (born April 29, 1947 in Hamburg ) is a German diplomat and was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Indonesia , ASEAN and East Timor from October 2009 to July 2012 . He retired on August 1, 2012 and has lived in Berlin ever since.

Life

After switching from studying industrial engineering with a major in mechanical engineering to economics, he graduated with a degree in economics from the Technical University of Berlin , followed by a postgraduate course in international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna and at the European University Institute in Florence, which he helped a doctorate to Dr. phil. Ended in 1978.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1978, he was employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn ( CSCE Department), at the Permanent Mission to the OECD in Paris and at the Embassy in Iraq .

From 1987 to 1991, Baas was personal advisor to the ministers of state in the Foreign Office Jürgen W. Möllemann and Helmut Schäfer . During this time in 1989 he also took part in a course at the Royal College of Defense Studies in London . This was followed by a transfer to the German embassy in the Soviet Union (Political Department).

From 1995 to 1998 Baas was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Georgia . After that he was head of the department for East Central Europe, Baltic States, Norway, Iceland and the Baltic Sea Council in the Foreign Office until 2001. From 2001 to 2003 he was then ambassador for special disposal in the Foreign Office and co-chair of the German-Polish government commission for regional cooperation.

From 2003 to July 2006, Baas was Ambassador and Commissioner for Russia , Central Asia and the Caucasus of the Federal Foreign Office (Political Department) and in this function coordinator of the Friends of the UN Secretary General on Georgia / Abkhazia and from September 2006 to September 2009 Ambassador of the Federal Republic Germany in the Republic of Korea . In 2009 he was appointed German ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, East Timor and ASEAN in Jakarta and held this position until his retirement in 2012.

In October 2012 he was appointed to the supervisory board of the Swiss German University in Jakarta. From June 2013 to December 2017, he was Program Director for Asia-Pacific in the International Diplomatic Training at the Foreign Service Academy. As Senior Advisor, he advises Bohnen Public Affairs Berlin. In December 2013 Norbert Baas was elected chairman of the Friends of Wiepersdorf Castle - Bettina and Achim von Arnim-Museum eV and on October 18, 2014 chairman of the Association of Friends and Supporters of the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Europe in Bologna eV

Norbert Baas has been married to Annabel v. Arnim-Baas, specialist in paediatrics in Berlin. You have two children.

literature

  • Norbert Baas: Black Sea Cooperation. Political challenges for a “European sea”. In: Internationale Politik 9, September 2006, pp. 118-120.
  • Dto .: ASEAN before an integration push, in: OAV German Asia Pacific Business Association, Asia-Pacific Business Guide 2013/2014, 58th edition, March 2014, Hamburg
  • Dto .: Indonesia, in OAV, Asia-Pacific Business Manual 2013/2014
  • Norbert Baas: Europe and Southeast Asia, Time for an Upgrade, in: Strategic Review, Jakarta, edition 9, July-September 2013, Volume 3, p. 140-154
  • Norbert Baas: Building trust, creating stability - the United Nations and the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict, in: Osteuropa 3/2006, 56th year, published by the German Society for Eastern European Studies
  • Dto. German Perceptions on the "War against Terrorism" in a Historical Perspective, in: NATO and the European Union, Edited by Hall Gardner, American University of Paris, May 2004
  • Dto, The Weimar Triangle from Regional Cooperation to European Integration, in: Internationale Politik, November 1999, No. 11, 54th year
  • Dto. Memories of Indonesia, in: Paths to and with Indonesia, 16 reports and reflections, edited by Berthold Damshäuser and Michael Rottmann, Regiospectra Verlag Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-940132-69-7
  • Norbert Baas and Friederike Frach (Hg): The Blue Flower in the GDR - References to Romanticism between political control and aesthetic obstinacy, 1st edition 2017, Quintus Verlag, ISBN 978-3-947215-04-1
  • https://www.freundeskreis-schloss-wiepersdorf.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IHK meeting week “Ostwestfalen meets ASEAN” opened today  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . IHK Ostwestfalen from June 27, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostwestfalen.ihk.de  
  2. ↑ a b Baas Norbert Dr. , Hübner's Who is Who . Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Dr. Norbert Baas, German Ambassador in Seoul , KBS from January 19, 2007.
  4. ↑ Interview with Dr. Norbert Baas, Germany's new Ambassador to Indonesia , germancentre.co.id (English).
  5. ↑ Germany ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Embassy of Georgia. Retrieved June 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / germany.mfa.gov.ge
  6. ↑ 4. New German ambassador is welcomed in Jakarta (PDF; 734 kB). In: Hanns Seidel Foundation , Quarterly Report Indonesia, Quarter III / 2012 p. 8
  7. ^ Supervisory Board on the website of the Swiss German University . Retrieved June 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ BOHNEN Public Affairs Team. In: BOHNEN Public Affairs. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Freundeskreis Schloss Wiepersdorf eV Accessed on March 6, 2019 .
  10. ^ Wiepersdorf Castle. After the turn. Retrieved May 13, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Baas, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg